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Even when she played another '50s housewife last fall in The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, after getting Oscar nominations for two of those roles in 2000 for Far from Heaven and The Hours, she infused a sense of passion and spirit into the character that lifted the film to a level where people were talking about her as an Oscar contender yet again. Playing Evelyn Ryan, a mother of 10 with an alcoholic husband, who supports her family by winning jingle-writing contests, could have made her seem typecast in the role of the struggling suburban mom.
"What's different about that role is that it's based on a true story," she says of Prize Winner. "The responsibility is entirely different. It's about how you bring the character to life in your own way, while remaining faithful to the spirit of who she was."
Moore's husband thinks these mother roles, particularly the '50s housewife ones, are just par for the course because Moore is so good at giving her characters an inner life. This is what shot her to fame in Todd Haynes's Safe in 1995 and attracted Freundlich's attention to cast her in his first movie, 1997's The Myth of Fingerprints.